Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enemy planes in small formations zooming out of the mist, circling over parks and department store roofs where anti-aircraft guns spat upward. Suddenly the street blossomed with colored vapors, to indicate that poison gas and incendiary bombs had been dropped. He coughed in good earnest as a smoke screen smelling like burning rubber billowed down on him. Suddenly the street was streaked with cars, motorcycles and bicycles scudding past, carrying members of youth organizations, official and semiofficial. Sweating in khaki sun-helmets and heavy khaki coats, they went into action shouting at traffic, patrolling the street to see that...
...William Jennings Bryan University, I am fully aware that the drinking of liquor of any alcoholic content whatsoever is not tolerated by the Institution. I hereby pledge myself to abstain totally from such indulgence in any degree, while a student in the University. ... I further pledge myself neither to smoke nor use tobacco or snuff in [the buildings] of the University; and should I indulge in the use of tobacco at all, I agree to confine myself to its use at the times and in the places designated. ... If a young woman, I pledge myself not to use tobacco...
...clock the South Station is deserted and the night air blowing in through the gates wanders around and is lost in the hollowness of stone. People are away at the Cape or in the mountains. Between the sheds the Owl lies panting little spirals of smoke in anticipation of the long run past weary towns, isolated farm-houses pallid in the moonlight, black water sleeping in the dim aisles of forests, down through Connecticut, past exclusive suburbs, through Harlem tenaments under Park Avenue into the awakening city, cool in the gray and pink of dawn...
...work was hindered in Cambridge by the number overcast nights and imperfect atmospheric conditions resulting from dust street illumination, smoke and uneven heating of the air. It was then decided to erect a new station for their work here in the Northern Hemisphere. This new station is located at Harvard, Massachusetts, at a place called Oak Ridge about 27 miles north-west of Cambridge...
...clock was whirring which meant eight. He had to take a taxi to get to the station in time, and that left him only 40 cents to lunch on. On the cold drafty trains, filled with foul cigar smoke, men in crumpled brown suits, played poker...